Visit our web site for all upcoming show schedules and ticket info. www.waterfrontmuseum.org Hours The Waterfront Museum, (11-3569896) founded in 1985, is docked in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It is housed aboard a 1914 covered wooden barge listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Waterfront Museum has created a much-publicized cultural site and destination in Brooklyn.  Its mission is to:  1. provide free and low-cost opportunities for education, exhibition and the performance arts; 2. promote historic preservation and our maritime heritage and an understanding of the importance of our "water highway for commerce, carrying commuters, culture, and recreation; 3. provide public access to waterfront piers and their unparalleled vistas and opportunities for recreation; 4. be an active voice for public waterfront access issues up and down the river.